About Wildlife around the lake area of Loch of Skaill

The area within a five mile radius of Loch of Skaill is home to 54 species of birds.

Loch of Skaill is a woodland area in Orkney Islands.

Loch of Skaill Map

Loch of Skaill Map

Birds found near Loch of Skaill

There have been 54 species of birds recorded within a five mile radius of Loch of Skaill.

Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea)
Black-Headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus)
Common Sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos)
Coot (Fulica atra)
Curlew (Numenius arquata)
Dunlin (Calidris alpina)
Glaucous Gull (Larus hyperboreus)
Great Black-Backed Gull (Larus marinus)
Green Plover (Vanellus vanellus)
Greenshank (Tringa nebularia)
Greylag Goose (Anser anser)
House Sparrow (Passer domesticus)
Jack Snipe (Lymnocryptes minimus)
Knot (Calidris canutus)
Long-Tailed Duck (Clangula hyemalis)
Merlin (Falco columbarius)
Mute Swan (Cygnus olor)
Pink-Footed Goose (Anser brachyrhynchus)
Red-Breasted Merganser (Mergus serrator)
Reed Bunting (Emberiza schoeniclus)
Ruff (Calidris pugnax)
Sanderling (Calidris alba)
Snipe (Gallinago gallinago)
Spotted Redshank (Tringa erythropus)
Teal (Anas crecca)
Turnstone (Arenaria interpres)
White Wagtail (Motacilla alba subsp. alba)
Barnacle Goose (Branta leucopsis)
Common Gull (Larus canus)
Common Swift (Apus apus)
Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)
Curlew Sandpiper (Calidris ferruginea)
Fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis)
Golden Plover (Pluvialis apricaria)
Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus)
Green-Winged Teal (Anas carolinensis)
Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea)
Herring Gull (Larus argentatus)
Iceland Gull (Larus glaucoides)
Jackdaw (Corvus monedula)
Linnet (Linaria cannabina)
Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)
Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus)
Oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus)
Pochard (Aythya ferina)
Redshank (Tringa totanus)
Ringed Plover (Charadrius hiaticula)
Sand Martin (Riparia riparia)
Smew (Mergellus albellus)
Sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus)
Starling (Sturnus vulgaris)
Tufted Duck (Aythya fuligula)
Twite (Linaria flavirostris)
Wigeon (Anas penelope)